After chatting with the old man on the topic of fishing for a while, after getting acquainted with each other a little, Zhou An changed the topic, "Old man, you should live nearby, right? I want to ask you about something!"

"Hey, if I live far away, I can't come here to fish at my age, young man!"

The old man was very kind and very talkative.

Maybe it's because he's usually too lonely and doesn't have anyone to talk to him?

Zhou An looked at the Xinbai Commercial Street across the road, "I want to ask, is the rent of those shops on the opposite side expensive? Do you know how much rent a house is a year?"

"Rent? What are you asking about this?"

The old man looked at Zhou An suspiciously, "Does your adult want to come here to open a store?" Or do you have relatives who want to come and sell things?"

The old man obviously didn't think it would be this teenage young man in front of him who wanted to rent it.

Zhou An knew that if he told the truth, this old man would definitely have more questions waiting for him, so in order to save trouble, he smiled and nodded, "Yes, my family wants to open a small restaurant here, let me come over first to find out about the rent." ”

The old man bowed his head in relief, and said with a smile: "In this way, it's okay to open a small restaurant here, but it's best to do business at night, you can also see the popularity here during the day, no one comes to eat, if you open another store, then I will definitely persuade the young man to you, Xinbai...... Hehe, the current Xinbai is not the same as before! The rent gets cheaper the further you go inside, and the innermost storefront is estimated to be able to rent one for a few thousand yuan a year, but the one closest to the park is much more expensive, and it costs 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year! Young man, what are you going to sell at home? Malatang or something?"

……

After inquiring about the approximate rent here, Zhou An casually dealt with the old man a few words, and then politely said goodbye and left.

He didn't have that much time to actually chat with an old man fishing.

20,000 or 30,000 a year......

He crossed the road again and returned to Xinbai Commercial Street, muttering this number in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

Looking at the storefronts here at Xinbai, he suddenly felt that these old houses had become cute.

Twenty or thirty thousand yuan a year, which is lower than the rent of his store in the food street.

He can roughly guess the reason, it should be that there are too many vacant storefronts here, after all, this was a shopping center in Rokuya City back then, and the number of stores can be imagined.

Although there are many restaurants in the area now, it is still a bit small compared to the many vacant stores.

He did not study economics, but he also knew the impact of supply and demand on prices.

The number of people who come here to rent a storefront is smaller than the number of storefronts, so the rent here will naturally not go up.

Landlords want higher rents, and renters can move a few steps to rent a store of the same size and at a lower price.

"Anzi, do you really want to open a branch here?"

Liang Yu, who was accompanying him, saw Zhou An inspecting the storefronts along the road with great interest, and couldn't help but confirm with him.

"Why not?"

Zhou An asked rhetorically, he was walking along the road between Xinbai Commercial Street and the park, and there were the most restaurants next to this road, and the effect of absorbing tourists in the park should also be the best.

"What is the business here at night, we have only heard and speculated, what if it is not as good as our food street?"

Liang Yu was a little worried.

"It's okay, let's run here more in the next period of time, and come over at night every time in the future, won't it be clear if we come a few more times?"

Zhou An didn't care.

He is not afraid of trouble when choosing a location for a new store, and although there are many vacant stores here, he always wants to see which part of the road is most popular at night.

He had seen too many of them, the same street, where business might be the best, or it might be at the end of the street or in the middle of the street, and the rest of the same street would have few pedestrians.

If you don't investigate this clearly, you think that the whole street is almost the same as renting any storefront, then it is no different from gambling, once you lose the gamble, just wait for the closure!

Liang Yu didn't notice that Zhou An looked all the way, focusing on the storefronts that were posted with "Wangpu for sale".

Since the rent here is lower than that of the food street in Yinma County, he has the idea of buying a few stores directly.

Because he was well aware of the street's potential for appreciation in the future.

At this time, if he can take advantage of the dismal popularity of this area and buy a few shops in advance, even if his branch here is not doing well and losing money year after year, those shops can also appreciate through the store in the future and help him earn it back.

No one doesn't like this kind of sure-money business, and he is certainly no exception.

It just so happens that he has money in hand now, and he was still thinking that if he only invested in one branch, he might not even be able to use one-third of the funds in hand, and his old store in Yinma County would continue to absorb funds for him, how would he spend the rest of the money?

How many more outlets to invest in?

The store is easy to rent, is the staff so easy to allot?

He has experienced the speed of depreciation of the renminbi in the next few years, and he has experienced the pain of his skin, so he does not dare to let a large amount of money lie in the bank account now.

Just think that whether he is eating, sleeping, or, his hard-earned money is shrinking, and he is desperate to find ways to invest.

……

A long street, one or two hundred storefronts, Zhou An looked back and forth three times before he stood still and said to Liang Yu: "Brother Yu, you go and drive the car over! I won't accompany you over, I'll wait for you here!"

"Good!"

Liang Yu promised and went immediately.

Zhou An sat on the stone pier on the side of the road and smoked, his eyes were still looking for those storefronts, who would have thought that this old street in the twilight of the West Mountain would be rejuvenated in two years? In a few years, it would soar again and become one of the most prosperous areas in Liugu City?

He is now underfunded, otherwise as long as he boldly buys a street, then he will not have to do anything after that, and he will become a billionaire sitting at home.

And this is the prophetic advantage brought by rebirth, he is very aware of the rise and fall of some places, he doesn't need to do much, just card in advance, and naturally he can catch some hitchhikers that no one knows about yet.

Before he finished smoking a cigarette, Liang Yu drove the car in front of him and stopped.

Casually extinguishing half of the cigarette on the side of the road, Zhou An looked back at the street again, smiled and got into the car.

"Are you going home?" asked Liang Yu.

"Well, let's go back to the county seat directly!"

……

In the next half a month, he really asked Liang Yu to drive him here every once in a while to observe the night market on this street.

Every time I come at night.

As for the business in the store?

Now there is his cousin Xia Wenjing and lobby manager Qu Yanyang in the front hall, and the kitchen has the head chef Chen Fayin, and his signature dishes have also been taught to Chen Fayin and Zhang Honglin.

After field trips again and again, he quickly observed the popularity of the night market here.